The Compy is Dead, Long Live the Compy
My computer died today. It went in it’s sleep so there was no pain.
Now I have to get a new one. Please be understanding as this may effect my posting schedule.
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Anvil or Hammer 
on March 6, 2007 on 10:51 am
Sucks man. Hope you can get all your data off.
on March 6, 2007 on 11:49 am
The good news is that all I really lost is a terminal. We have all of our long term data backed up to a separate hard drive and I pretty much live off a thumb drive. We lost a couple little notes documents that we use day to day but it’s not nearly as bad as it could be.
I ordered a new Dell this morning.
on March 7, 2007 on 12:52 am
A new Dell, eh? What’d you get? – I’m using a Mac at the moment, but I was on the Dark Side for 20+ years before that 🙂
I’m impressed at the ‘pretty much live off a thumb drive’ line. Same here (except for media, which is all on external drives).
on March 7, 2007 on 8:33 am
I got a cheapo dell, I’ll lookup the basic specs and stick ’em here:
AMD Athelon 3200 ( A brief search says it’s probably equivalent to a 3Ghz pentium)
2 gig ram (little upgrade I grabbed:-))
Integrated graphics and sound
160 GB HD (7200 RPM)
Floppy (going old skool)
Vista (YUUCK)
DVD-R (w00t)
20″ flat panel
and the big expense and about a fifth of the total cost….
Office Professional 2007
It was kinda and unexpected expense. I know my time was coming but I didn’t really expect it to come so suddenly.
I can honestly say I used Macs exclusively for years. I used apples before they were macs. I was an apple devotee from about 12 – 20. I subscribed to at least the first two years of MacAddict. I even considered going back recently but trying to maintain my mother-in-laws Mac convinced me that their product had gotten worse instead of better and kept me away. From what I understand, if you are into any kind of graphics or movies, you almost need a Mac. I don’t do any of that so I haven’t had to worry about it.
I do live off my thumb drive, it’s a 2Gig. It was my big Christmas gift for the year and probably my most used gift as well. It makes it easy to go from work to home and school and back. I downloaded an application suite called Portableapps (http://portableapps.com/). It has firefox, messenger services, Openoffice and more. I originally set out to make my thumbdrive a protable server via “server on a stick” but could never get it to run. I have all the backups to this site and others on my thumbdrive, so I guess once I get up and running on the new computer (hopefully in a week or so) I need to back that up too.
I gotta figure out how to get Ubuntu on my mother in laws old ibook I have laying around……
on March 8, 2007 on 5:31 am
I’m almost the other way around. I started out with an Apple IIe in about 1983, switched over to PCs (so I could pull things apart and see how they worked), and came back to Apple just a few months ago. I haven’t used any of the older Macs for any length of time (just helped friends with theirs), but as far as I can tell the move to Intel has been a very positive one. The new machines are really nice.
How old’s the ibook? Putting Ubuntu on it sounds like fun. What’s on it now?
on March 8, 2007 on 12:09 pm
It’s a preIntel iBook, probably 4 years old or so. She got it when they were going from OS9 to OSX so that is what currently resides. I have been having trouble getting it to boot from the CD.
on March 8, 2007 on 9:32 pm
What about using something like Yellow Dog Linux on an external drive? Or boot from a thumb drive instead of the CD?
on March 8, 2007 on 11:00 pm
I haven’t played with it much. I’m wanting to get Ubuntu installed, the disc checks when I run it but if I run from the CD the desktop loads so slowly it is useless and I don’t seem to be able to install. I haven’t played with the concept of booting from another type of drive yet.